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• She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged, and ground no longer.

  T. H. White

  Pain, Heart, Unrequited Love

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.366, Penguin

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• my boyfriend is a rock god baby (and not kiss-of-death(sorry))

  Rachel Caine

  Baby, Sorry, Kissing

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• Three young cats with starlight in their eyes and the whisper of ancient wind in their fur." -Rock, Cats of the Clans

  Erin Hunter

  Cat, Eye, Wind

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• The mountain trembled like an earthquake. Dust flew into the sky. And the rock turned dark red, like the color of blood'. 'How would you know?' Asks Sindhi cap. 'You only have a black and white television'. 'But it's a very good one. You can almost see colours.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Dark, Black And White, Sky

  Mohsin Hamid (2000). “Moth Smoke”, p.133, Penguin Books India

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• It is so strange, to encounter an ex. It's as if you're in a foreign film, and what you're saying face-to-face has nothing to do with the subtitles flowing beneath you. We are so careful not to touch, although once upon a time, I slept plastered to him in our bed, like lichen on a rock. We are two strangers who knows every shameful secret, every hidden freckle, every fatal flaw in each other.

  Jodi Picoult

  Two, Once Upon A Time, Secret

  Jodi Picoult (2011). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• He remembered his mentor, Lou Kline, telling him in the nineties that rock and roll had peaked at Monterey Pop. They'd been in Lou's house in LA with its waterfalls, the pretty girls Lou always had, his car collection out front, and Bennie had looked into his idol's famous face and thought, You're finished. Nostalgia was the end - everyone knew that.

  Jennifer Egan

  Girl, Idols, Rock And Roll

  Jennifer Egan (2011). “A Visit From the Goon Squad”, p.31, Hachette UK

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• Behold Vo Mimbre," Mandorallen proclaimed with pride, "queen of cities. Upon that rock the tide of Angarak crashed and recoiled and crashed again. Upon this field met they their ruin. The soul and pride of Arendia doth reside within that fortress and the power of the Dark One may not prevail against it." "We've been here before, Mendorallen," Mister Wolf said sourly.

  David Eddings

  Queens, Pride, Dark

  David Eddings (1982). “Queen of Sorcery”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• Whatever happened to him?" Silk asked. "He went swimming in the Nedrane." "I didn't know that Thulls swam all that well." "They don't–particularly not with large rocks tied to their feet.

  David Eddings

  Swimming, Feet, Wells

  David Eddings (1982). “Queen of Sorcery”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• You aren't angry " "You must be joking " she said dryly. "I'm alive Nicholas. And I'm immortal like you. This rocks

  Lynsay Sands

  Alive, Like You, Said

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• No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel.

  Clarice Lispector

  Writing, Steel, Splinters

  Clarice Lispector (1986). “The Hour of the Star”, p.19, New Directions Publishing

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• My lovely shining fragile broken house is filled with flowers and founded on a rock.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Religious, Flower, Broken

  Madeleine L'Engle (2009). “The Ordering of Love: The New & Collected Poems of Madeleine L'Engle”, p.24, WaterBrook

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• It's me. I chose this. I chose all of this — this rock has been waiting for me my entire life. I’ve been moving towards it my whole life.

  Aron Ralston

  Letting Go, Moving, Waiting

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• I differ with myself then agree, like the rock that was broken and cemented together. I change my opinion.

  China Mieville

  Broken, Together, Opinion

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• I swam across the rocks and compared myself favorably with the sars. To swim fishlike, horizontally, was the logical method in a medium eight hundred times denser than air. To halt and hang attached to nothing, no lines or air pipe to the surface, was a dream. At night I had often had visions of flying by extending my arms as wings. Now I flew without wings. (Since that first aqualung flight, I have never had a dream of flying.)

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Dream, Night, Eight

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• Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That's when you shout, "Do your worst, for I will do mine!" and you will be remembered forever.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Forever, Storm, Next

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• Daddy looked at her hard, and right before my eyes, he changed. I watched him inflate again, shake off his own emotions and puff himself up for her. Become her man. Her rock. I smiled. I loved him so much. He'd dragged mom kicking and screaming from grief once before and I knew I could rest easy that he would never let grief steal her from him again. No matter what happened to me.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Mom, Grief, Eye

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.826, Dell

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• I felt someone should personally thank every rock out there for the human misery it had absorbed. We should kiss them one by one & say, we are sorry, but something strong & lasting had to do this for May, & you are the chosen ones. God bless your rock hearts.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Strong, Sorry, Heart

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• His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as in rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and these can never be destroyed.

  Victor Hugo

  Heart, Men, Compassion

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• You see, evil always contains the seeds of its own destruction. It is ultimately negative, and therefore encompasses its downfall even at its moments of apparent triumph. No matter how grandiose, how well-planned, how apparently foolproof of an evil plan, the inherent sinfulness will by definition rebound upon its instigators. No matter how apparently successful it may seem upon the way, at the end it will wreck itself. It will founder upon the rocks of iniquity and sink headfirst to vanish without trace into the seas of oblivion.

  Neil Gaiman

  Successful, Sea, Evil

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• The worst isn't the last thing about the world. It's the next to the last thing. The last thing is the best. It's the power from on high that comes down into the world, that wells up from the rock-bottom worst of the world like a hidden spring. Can you believe it? The last, best thing is the laughing deep in the hearts of the saints, sometimes our hearts even. Yes. You are terribly loved and forgiven. Yes. You are healed. All is well.

  Frederick Buechner

  Spring, Believe, Heart

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• He held my hand and told me a story about when he was six and threw a rock at a kid's head who was bullying his brother, and how after that no one had bothered either of them again. 'You have to stick up for yourself,' he told me. 'But it's bad to throw rocks,' I said. 'I know. You're smarter than me. You'll find something better than rocks.

  Nicole Krauss

  Bullying, Brother, Kids

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.94, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Maybe in the morning, sunlight would to turn him back into a statue; then I could take Stone out to the forest where he could frolic among the ferns, gurgle at streams, and make friends with the other interesting rocks.

  Devon Monk

  Morning, Interesting, Stones

  Devon Monk (2009). “Magic in the Shadows: An Allie Beckstrom Novel”, p.134, Penguin

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• Rock, meet stubborn place.

  Devon Monk

  Stubborn

  Devon Monk (2010). “Magic on the Storm: An Allie Beckstrom Novel”, p.81, Penguin

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• Wake up,' a voice like water rippling over rocks whispered in my ear.

  Kiersten White

  Voice, Water, Ears

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• Hey, rock dude, are you destroying the house? Causing mayhem? Who’s a ferocious gargoyle? Stoney’s a ferocious gargoyle.

  Devon Monk

  House, Hey, Gargoyles

  Devon Monk (2010). “Magic at the Gate: An Allie Beckstrom Novel”, p.111, Penguin

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